Switch-operating mechanism.



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB EISELE, OF IITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

SWITCH-OPERATING M ECHANISM.

SEEGIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,006, dated February25, 1902.

Application filed April 24:, 1901.

T0 all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, JACOB EIsELE, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSwitch-Opcrating Mechanism; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in switchoperating mechanism, and has for its object to provide novel andeffective means whereby the switchtongue may be conveniently operatedfrom the car.

The invention is particularly adapted for use in connection withstreet-cars; andit consists in providing a somewhat Z-shaped lever, theone arm of which is adapted to be forced downwardly into position whereit may engage with the switch-tongue and thus move the latter in thedesired direction. This construction, together with other detailsentering into my invention, will be hereinafter more specificallydescribed and then particularly pointed out in the claim, and indescribing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein likenumerals of reference will be employed for designating like partsthroughout the diiferent views of the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aside elevation of a part of a car, partly in section, showing myimproved switch-operating device in position. Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of the same, partly in section, showing in dotted lines themovement of the switch-operating device. Fig. 3 is a detail perspectiveView of the switch-operating device detached from the car.

To put my invention into practice, I suspend from the underneath face ofthe carplatform 1 a pair of bearings 2, in which is journaled a rod 3,having its forward end 4 bent upwardly at an incline and extendedthrough the platform of the car, with a foot- $eria1 No. 57,219. (Nomodel.)

plate 5 on its upper end. This rod 3 at its other or rear end is bentdownwardly at an incline, as at 6, and carries a shoe 7, which isflattened and pointed, as shown, and is adapted to engage theswitch-tongue when the rod is actuated. A spring 8, connected to the arm6 of the rod and to the underneath faceof the car-platform, holds thearm 6 normally in the elevated position. It will be observed that thearms 4 and 6 are bent, the one upwardly at an incline and the otherdownwardly at an incline, but both projecting from the same side of therod 3. When the rod'is operated by pressure on the foot plate 5, the arm6 will be forced downwardly into engagement with the switch-tongue toforce the same to the opposite position from that it is occupying, themovement of this arm 6 and also of the arm 4 being shown in dotted linesin Fig. 2. One of the devices may be attached to each end of the car, soas to throw the switch from either end of said car. If the switch-tongueis in the desired position when the car approaches, no opera tion of thethrowing-rod is made.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A switch-throwing device, comprising in combination with the brackets 2,secured to the under side of the platform of a car,-boxings heldthereto, a bar 3 journaled in said boxings, said bar being bent at rightangles at two locations, forming a downwardly-disposed arm 6 withflattened pointed end, and

an upwardly-inclined arm 4, the extreme upper end of arm 4 being bent atan obtuse angle thereto, and a spring fastened at one end to said arm 6,its other arm fastened to the floor of the car, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in thepresence of two sub scribing witnesses.

JACOB EIs'ELE.

Witnesses:

LOUIS Monsnn, R. S. ABSZYNSKI.

